Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A political unit consisting of an autonomous state inhabited predominantly by a people sharing a common culture, history, and language.
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- noun A
political entity (a state) associated with a particularcultural entity (a nation) and asovereign territorial unit.
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Examples
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Despite growing decentralization since the 1990s the idea of nation-state and capitalism as understood in the West has not evolved in India.
Madhavi Bhasin: Has India Downloaded the 'Killer Apps'? Madhavi Bhasin 2011
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Despite growing decentralization since the 1990s the idea of nation-state and capitalism as understood in the West has not evolved in India.
Madhavi Bhasin: Has India Downloaded the 'Killer Apps'? Madhavi Bhasin 2011
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Despite growing decentralization since the 1990s the idea of nation-state and capitalism as understood in the West has not evolved in India.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Madhavi Bhasin 2011
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To gauge the depth of white working-class cultural identification with the nation-state, one need not look any further than popular reactions to American military ventures since Pearl Harbor.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Thailand is the 19th largest nation-state in the world by population with an estimated 66 million citizens.
Mark Belinsky: This Can Get Mark Zuckerberg Arrested Mark Belinsky 2011
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But in contributing new verses and combing through the various contributions which have been made over the years by other writers, it turns out to have a real Native American feel to it, just the gentleness of it, and the reverence for, not America as nation-state "USA!" but more as "mother country," you know, just the idea of loving America.
Mike Ragogna: Better Late Than Never: A Conversation With Buffy Sainte-Marie Mike Ragogna 2011
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Thailand is the 19th largest nation-state in the world by population with an estimated 66 million citizens.
Mark Belinsky: This Can Get Mark Zuckerberg Arrested Mark Belinsky 2011
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But in contributing new verses and combing through the various contributions which have been made over the years by other writers, it turns out to have a real Native American feel to it, just the gentleness of it, and the reverence for, not America as nation-state "USA!" but more as "mother country," you know, just the idea of loving America.
Mike Ragogna: Better Late Than Never: A Conversation With Buffy Sainte-Marie Mike Ragogna 2011
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Thailand is the 19th largest nation-state in the world by population with an estimated 66 million citizens.
Mark Belinsky: This Can Get Mark Zuckerberg Arrested Mark Belinsky 2011
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Thailand is the 19th largest nation-state in the world by population with an estimated 66 million citizens.
Mark Belinsky: This Can Get Mark Zuckerberg Arrested Mark Belinsky 2011
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